Charles Rosen quotes
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“The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.”
-- Charles RosenSource : Charles Rosen (2001). “Critical Entertainments”, p.295, Harvard University Press
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“Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.”
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“Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.”
-- Charles RosenSource : Charles Rosen (2002). “Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist”, p.231, Simon and Schuster
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“The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.”
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“A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.”
-- Charles RosenSource : Charles Rosen (2002). “Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist”, p.236, Simon and Schuster
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“Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success.”
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“When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.”
-- Charles RosenSource : Charles Rosen (2002). “Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist”, p.195, Simon and Schuster
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“As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.”
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“I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.”
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“A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.”
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Source : "Gustavo Dudamel: 'I'm not the messiah" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2010.
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“I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.”
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“Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.”
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“Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.”
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